People, I am the luckiest swappee there could be. I participated in the Crafty Daisies Summer Swap, and look what my lovely swap partner Candace (of Laughing Daisies) sent me:
Can you believe all that swappy goodness? I’ll just show you a few things so you don’t hate me too much for being so lucky
Could you die? She appliqued those fruits and polka-dotty bits!
Why hello, clutch I will be carrying all summer.
A beautiful fabric-covered box (how’d you do that, Candace?) for all of my summer souvenirs. Not to mention darling vintage hankies and buttons and fun fabric… well, now it just sounds like I’m bragging. Thank youCandace! I sure lucked out.
In other crafty news– my trousers are all cut out (not the interfacing yet, but everything else), and I’m reading the instructions over and over. Anyone out there who has Sew U realise that ALL of the seam allowances for the patterns included with the book are 1/2 INCH?! Um, except for the ones that are 1/4″, but since they’re not noted in the instructions or on the pattern tissue, it is hard to know which ones those are. No wonder I ruined my spotty-dotty fabric shirt when trying to sew a 5/8″ seam on the collar! But now I know, so I won’t sew tiny pants and depress myself. I’m sure this is neither Wendy Mullin nor Simplicity’s fault– it is mentioned early on in the book, though not in the individual project instructions, and probably the seam allowances were meant to be noted on the pattern tissue and there was some miscommunication. After all, her BBY Simplicity patterns have the standard 5/8″ seam allowance.
/Sewing rant. I have been crafting, though you’re not seeing the results here just yet. Yesterday I made a few things for a wee me and another awesome crafter swap, but I can’t show you because I want her to see them first. And a few things today for an etsy update. Man, I’ve been letting that shop languish with three little items, but NO MORE! Expect fortnightly (except when not) themed updates. I think the upcoming one (Monday, perhaps) will be “Summer Picnic,” and there will be skirts.
Now I’m off to read the Summer issue of Adorn that came in the mail today! I can already tell it is packed with wild amounts of crafty wonder.